The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AN Arizona paper uses the headline deaths
Dirty Work. in an article about the decease of
popular bartender.
Mrs DINAH MULocK-CRA1K left personal
estate valued at more than $50. 900. 1t all goes
to her adopted daughter, Miss Dorothy Craik
Miss NJ. A. DODGE, known to fame Gail
Hamilton, has not decided whether she will join
the Blaine family in Europe or spend the winter
in Florida.
ANNExIA FOSTER is the peculiar name of a
Baltimore infant. She obtained it from the fact
that she was the first child born in the annex to
the Baltimore city jail. She is four days old.
ROLAND NIcKERsoN, son of the president of
the First National Bank in Chicago and heir to a
fortune of So 900, 900. employs himself in cooking
the food for the 10, 900 street-car horses in the
city.
New YORK Sun: Attendant to Mr.. John L.
Sullivan at his hotel: ''Her Majesty the Queen
has hexpressed a desire to see you" Mr.. John
l. Sullivan: well, show de old lady up at
oncet'
SoMERvILLE Journal: young lady insists
that it isn't the pathos of the acting at the
theater that makes her cry but the soulful sob
bings of the violins. She may be right 1t is
certain that nothing will make a man with a
musical ear feel more like weeping than mis-
managed fiddle
ANDREW D. WHITE, who was for nineteen
years president of Cornell University, is still a
comparatively young He is only fifty-fi
general appearance and manner, he bears more
resemblance to a successful business man than
to retired scholar
SAM JONES gave Albany sharp rap on Sun
day. He told the Albanians that thoroughly
deyout man was one who is as religious when in
Albany as when in New York-"whch is saying
good DEAL added the speaker. Yes. 1t Is say
ing good deal. More than one New. Yorker
has gone to Albany and lost his reputation as a
truly good man.
PRoHIBITIoNIsr procession in Atlanta.
Georgia. stopped before house of an
old gentlemen who sat at a window
with his wife and family. The process
sion stopped solely for the purpose OF
zen and business man, and whose only offense
was that he opposed prohibition.
A NEW and prominent picture in the parlor of
Secretary Bayard's residence is life-like por-
trait in oil of his lamented daughter Katherine
Bayard. She is represented in one of her arts
tic gowns soft. creamy tint, which owei! suited
her STYLE the lace at the throat half concealing
pearl necklace of many strands, and falling
away from supple wal ST She holds banjo
as if idly awaking it to the tune OF an old re-
| frain.
WHEN Thomas Mast was in Kansas City
| Gently, he was annoyed by the rudeness of the
| elevator boy, and said as much. On later
| visit the boy was all poiteness, and asked Mr..
Mast for his unique autograph. Mr.. Mast drew
| him hasty pen and ink sketch of himself bow
ing deferentially to the elevator boy, and wrote
| under the drawing: Those who. elevate others
| must be polite themselves" The boy learned
| lesson.
| CARTER H. HARRISON, ex-Mayor of Chicago,
| writes from Japan that he is sorry the women of
that country have adopted the European style
| of dress. He says they might much better have
| chosen the costume worn by the ladies of China.
| II would like to build a wall around China" he
| saws. tout of which no almond-eyed Celestial
| could escape but would be delighted if the
| costume of their ladies could be introduced
| our better halves dressed to please artistic
eye without the present waste of female health
/ and strength"
In her daily life Mrs. Dinah NIulock- Craik was,
says the London Daily News, remarkably me-
| thodicaL Though many of her works appeared
/ in periodicals. she would never under any cir
c1mstances consent to beginning of publica
/ ton before the work was entirely out of her
| hand. and what is very singular, she is said dur
/ ing the whole course of her forty years labors
/ never to have begun writing anything which
| she did not carry straight through. and 1T is be-
| leved that she has not left behind single line
| of unfinished work intended for publication.
| Indeed. everything she ever wrote with the view
| to publication has been published.
/ CHINESE LEGEND.
OF flial piety such store
/ Had Ouang Ouei Yuen, the emperor;
| That-though his mother, who had been
| Ave fearful of the thunders din.
| Lay in her grave-whens'er he heard
/ The first low Inutterings that stirred
The bearded ormclouds, through the gloom
Passing, he sought her lonely tomb
! And, bending whispered low
/ 8. am here Mother would go,
| Till-a great of gold-the
/ Out bloomed through webs the rain had spun.
| Charles Henry Luders in American Magazine.
|